{"id":2526,"date":"2007-04-30T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2007-04-30T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T02:09:00","slug":"2526","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2526","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">You may have heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savenetradio.org\/\">royalty rates going up<\/a> (and up, up, up) for internet radio broadcasters. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.art-machine.org\/blog\/about\/948\/money-you-dont-own\">Glen points out<\/a>, it&#8217;s worse than you thought:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So. SoundExchange &#8211; which is in the pocket of the RIAA &#8211; collects funds for people <i>it does not represent<\/i>, regardless of whether or not they want those funds collected, then <i>holds onto those funds<\/i> unless those people <i>pay<\/i> for them. In fact, if you remember last year&#8217;s massive list of artists who had not collected their royalties yet, SoundExchange has a <i>very<\/i> sweet deal. If you don&#8217;t collect the royalties by the end of the year, you don&#8217;t get those royalties ever &#8211; they pocket whatever they don&#8217;t disburse. Every year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How can this sort of thing possibly be legal?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard about royalty rates going up (and up, up, up) for internet radio broadcasters. As Glen points out, it&#8217;s worse than you thought: So. SoundExchange &#8211; which is in the pocket of the RIAA &#8211; collects funds for people it does not represent, regardless of whether or not they want those funds &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2526\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}